About the CEV Online Community

The CEV Online Community is a social media platform: It connects CEV members and partners allowing them to share their knowledge, publications and projects on volunteering. It allows the CEV community to get directly in touch, exchange ideas, and design common projects.

The CEV Online Community is organised by topics: information is displayed by categories such as volunteering “target groups”, “areas of engagement”, and “volunteering management”. You can also directly search for ”contacts”, “experts” ”projects” and “resources”. The members of this platform can directly interact with each other by sending messages to each other as well as to “topic communities”, i.e. community members interested in the same topics.

Learn how to join the CEV Online Community

If your organisation is already a member of CEV, the European Volunteer Centre, please ask the responsible person in your organisation, or write to the CEV secretariat to receive a registration key

Your organisation is not (yet) a member of CEV, but you are interested in publications, projects, experts and contacts in relation to volunteering? You can sign up for a Limited Trial Account to get an impression of the community.

External volunteering experts may be granted an "invited" membership. For terms and conditions please contact the CEV office.

Content in the community is organised around the following topics:

Areas of Engagement

  • Active Ageing
  • Active citizenship
  • Animal welfare
  • Anti-discrimination / Anti-racism
  • Campaigning / Advocacy
  • Civil protection / disaster relief
  • Conflict resolution / peace building / mediation
  • Counselling / mentoring / befriending / bereavement
  • Criminal justice sector / courts / police / prisons
  • Culture / cultural heritage / arts
  • Cyber-literacy
  • Development / Humanitarian aid
  • Environmental protection
  • Equal opportunities
  • Fundraising
  • Good Governance
  • Health / Prevention
  • Human Rights
  • Intercultural dialogue
  • Intergenerational dialogue
  • Public sector volunteering
  • Religion / spirituality
  • Sexual orientation
  • Social inclusion
  • Social services / care
  • Sports
  • Voluntary honorary positions

Volunteering Management

  • Assessing and recognizing skills and competences
  • Communicating volunteering
  • Cooperation between volunteers and paid staff
  • Monitoring / evaluation
  • Recognition / awarding / celebration
  • Recruitment
  • Training / retaining / empowering

Target Groups

  • Cybervolunteers / Online volunteers
  • Disabled people
  • Elderly / Senior citizens
  • Employee volunteers (public and private sectors)
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Homeless people
  • International volunteers / exchanges
  • Migrants / Asylum seekers
  • Prisoners / ex-offenders
  • Raising employability / unemployed volunteers
  • Travelers
  • Women
  • Youth / Pupils / Students

The Bigger Picture

  • Advocacy and volunteering policy development
  • Building partnerships between stakeholders
  • Developing the volunteering infrastructure
  • High visibility events (Volunteer weeks, etc)
  • Legal environment of volunteering
  • Measuring the economic value of volunteering
  • Volunteering and civic participation / active citizenship
  • Ways of assessing the value of volunteering

The CEV Online community is provided by:

CEV European Volunteer Centre
Rue de la Science 10
1000 Brussels, Belgium

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